🍀 I HAVE PICKED UP THE PIECES 🍀
Source: …HEALING…
The words healthy, heal, whole share a common etymology about wholeness. It is in picking up the pieces and making ourselves whole that we find good health and heal.
This includes being in community whether we are face-to-face with each other. Parker Palmer suggested “Community does not necessarily mean living face-to-face with others; rather, it means never losing the awareness that we are connected to each other. It is not about the presence of other people-it is about being fully open to the reality of relationship, whether or not we are alone.”
When we connect with each other, we become whole and belong to community. When we are mindful and attentive of the other, we become whole and belong to community.
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About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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Teacher as Transformer 
Beautifully stated.
Thank you.
You are so very welcome. 🙂
It took many years to appreciate this. Thanks for sharing Ivon.
You are welcome Val. The best lessons take time to learn. I am finding I am still learning to appreciate this.
The word community has so many possibilities, but in all of them lies the fact that we are connected to other individuals and without that connection (even though sometimes I’d like to be alone) our life isn’t quite as meaningful.
That is so true. Connecting means we hold something in common with others and that makes life much more meaningul.
I’ve always enjoyed your blog and wanted to share that with you, and in particular, I thought this was a great post touching on issues that have been on my mind – thanks for connecting some of the dots for me and expanding on the significance of wholeness and the importance of the sense of belonging. Peace and wishing you success on your PhD – again, I really fancy your dissertation topic. Peace, Harlon
Thank you for the kind words. I am glad when others can find something that helps them in my writing.